Sugar feeding and fluid destination control in the phlebotomine sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-19

  Tang, Yinshan ^a   Ward, Richard D ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cibarial pump; Crop; Feeding behaviour; Fore gut; Lutzomyia longipalpis; Maxillary palpi; Mid gut; Pharyngeal pump; Psychodidae; Sandflies; Stomodaeal valve

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIGESTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHODIDAE;

ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATES; DIGESTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; PSYCHODIDAE;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PSYCHODIDAE; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 0031882010     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.1998.00063.x     Document Type: Article

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